These children don’t look like college students – yet.
They’re busy finishing homework, listening to a story, playing games and talking to tutors in their after-school program at the Packer Community Learning Center.
By the time these grade-schoolers finish high school, their tutors hope, they’ll be ready for college – academically and personally.
They represent the expansion of UW-Madison’s PEOPLE program to younger children as part of its effort to get more minority and poor children in the pipeline for college.